Cecil Paget

Lt.-Col. Sir Cecil Walter Paget, 2nd Baronet CMG DSO (19 October 1874 – 9 December 1936),[1] was an English locomotive engineer and railway administrator. He was general superintendent of Midland Railway from 1907 until the First World War.[2] Though his railway career was brief, he was influential in his methods of centralised traffic control at Midland Railway, which soon became the industry standard.[3]

  1. ^ Who was who, 1941.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cecil Paget". The Times. 12 December 1936. p. 19.
  3. ^ "Sir Cecil Paget – A Great Railwayman". The Times. 18 December 1936. p. 16.